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IrelandRural UK lows could dip below -5°C before milder weather
Manchester Evening News's widely watched forecast points to sharp overnight frosts, but the Met Office expects the cold spell to be brief.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 69,144 views a day, 17 times a normal first day on this channel (4,138).
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"It's not going to be super long-lasting." That is the qualification from Met Office spokesman Paddy Manning in Manchester Evening News's report on the UK's incoming cold snap: sharp overnight cold, followed by milder conditions next week.
The forecast puts the lowest temperatures in rural areas, with isolated spots potentially dipping below -5°C. Cold winds and blustery showers are expected across northern regions on Thursday and Friday, while elsewhere sunny spells give way to sharp overnight frosts. Rural parts of north-west and southern England, southern Scotland, south-west and central Wales, and the Midlands are among the areas highlighted.
The report illustrates that outlook with stock footage of frozen waterways, snowy roads and a snowplough. Those pictures are wintry illustration, not footage establishing snowfall across those places during this cold spell.
About 57,000 views arrived within the upload's first sixteen hours, far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for a Short. It follows the channel's earlier Greater Manchester cold-health alert, but widens the picture beyond the region. Manning's forecast also supplies a useful distinction: the deepest overnight lows could occur in isolated rural spots, rather than across the whole country.
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- Channel
- Manchester Evening News
- Subscribers
- 145,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 686,468
- Channel views, pace per day
- 126,843 (on a normal day: 106,317)
- Video published
- November 12, 2026
- Video views so far
- 57,241 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 69,144
The numbers
The forecast drew far more views than a typical Manchester Evening News Short, with comments also well above its usual first-day total.
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When does Paddy Manning expect conditions to turn milder?
Manning says the cold snap should be short-lived, with milder conditions expected going into the following week.